Today we discussed the EEA (environment of evolutionary adaptiveness) - the environment in which many of our current behaviours were adaptive. They are no longer adaptive because the environment has changed. This is highly relevant to food preferences today - a diet rich in sugars and fats is extremely maladaptive today, but these nutrients were in short supply in the EEA so were favoured.
Today's powerpoint is here.
Make sure you hand in your essay on dieting behaviour tomorrow.
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